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Momence sits on the Kankakee River in eastern Kankakee County, an old river town where the water has always been close at hand. Riverfront parcels can fall within a FEMA Special Flood Hazard Area, and an Elevation Certificate documents how a building relates to the Base Flood Elevation. For owners near the river, it is the reference that anchors insurance and permitting.
A FEMA Elevation Certificate documents your building’s elevation relative to the Base Flood Elevation on the FEMA flood map. Insurers use it to rate flood policies and communities use it to confirm floodplain compliance; it can also support a Letter of Map Amendment (LOMA) to remove a structure from a flood zone.
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The city of Momence, home to about 3,117 residents in Momence Township, sits directly on the Kankakee River, whose corridor carries the mapped Special Flood Hazard Areas most relevant to local owners. A licensed Illinois surveyor completes the FEMA Elevation Certificate by measuring the lowest floor against the Base Flood Elevation, giving flood insurers a factual rating basis and giving the floodplain administrator the data to review a riverside permit. When the building stands above the Base Flood Elevation, the certificate supports a Letter of Map Amendment to FEMA. Recording for Momence parcels runs through the Kankakee County Recorder of Deeds at the county seat in Kankakee. Higher ground away from the river generally faces lower exposure.
Momence sits on the Kankakee River, and FEMA maps Special Flood Hazard Areas along that river corridor where the ground is low.
The surveyor visits the site, measures the building’s required elevations, and records them on the FEMA form against the property’s Base Flood Elevation.
It can, because rating a policy from a surveyed lowest-floor elevation often yields a fairer premium than a mapped-zone estimate, especially if the floor sits near or above the Base Flood Elevation.
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Pi Surveying, located in Oak Brook, a suburb of Chicago, Illinois, is a professional land surveying design firm that provides land surveys for both the private and commercial sector.